The college game is mired in scandal and it may take pressure from superstars in the NBA to fix deep-rooted problemsNobody is stepping up to fix college sports, so if LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony truly believe the NCAA is corrupt they are…

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By criminalizing violations in college sports, the US Department of Justice will make it so that it is not just the NCAA who runs the market but the state as well

A bombshell was dropped on the college basketball world this week as an FBI probe into the seedy underbelly of the sport has resulted in the arrest of 10 men, including four high-level assistant coaches under charges of “bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, honest service fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and Travel Act conspiracy.”

That laundry list of charges is impressive, but for those with any experience in how the world of college sports really works, it should come as no surprise. Under the table cash contributions to entice players to come play college sports has been a reality of the game ever since its inception. It was true in the 1980s, when Southern Methodist University earned the NCAA’s death penalty because it failed to properly cover up its payments to 21 different athletes. It was true in the 1940s, when American University officials blew the whistle on postwar attempts to recruit players to college football squads with bribes. It was even true in the first decade of the 1900s, the earliest period of the organization that would become today’s NCAA, when McClure’s magazine broke the news that Ivy League schools were fielding teams of “phantom students,” and that Yale coach Walter Camp had a $100,000 slush fund from the school.

The NCAA has awarded men’s basketball tournament games in 2020 and 2021 along with several other championship events to North Carolina after the state repealed elements of a law that limited protections for LGBT people and put it at risk of being passed over as a host for future events.

The governing body announced decisions on Tuesday for events through 2022, two weeks after the NCAA said it had “reluctantly” agreed to consider North Carolina again for hosting duties. It had stripped North Carolina of seven championship events for the past sports season — including opening-weekend men’s basketball tournament games — and said it could relocate more events if there wasn’t a change in the “bathroom bill.”

In a statement on Tuesday, the athletics body said its board of governors had reviewed moves to repeal the so-called “bathroom bill” and replace it with a compromise law. The new agreement, House Bill 142, though it repeals the bathroom bill, has angered LGBT and civil liberty groups because it prohibits future anti-discrimination ordinances by cities and councils. This means that cities will not be able to introduce any local laws to specifically protect transgender people.

The Golden State Warriors’ dream season ends in a LeBron James nightmare; legends leave the game; the basketball world mourns Pat Summitt

You can be forgiven for thinking that the Cleveland Cavaliers were finished. After all, no team in NBA history had ever come back from a 3-1 NBA Finals lead and they were playing a Golden State Warriors team that wasn’t just good but historically unprecedented. Having gone 73-9 in the regular season, the 2015-16 Warriors were arguably a single win away from being in the “best NBA team ever” conversation.

University says ‘extremely offensive report’ on female soccer players was produced over several years by male players, who had been leading Ivy League

Harvard University has suspended its men’s soccer team for the remainder of the season because of sexual comments made about members of the women’s soccer team.

University president Drew Faust said in a statement on Thursday night that an investigation into the 2012 team found their “appalling” actions were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few, but appeared to be more widespread across the team and continued through the current season.

The decision to move March Madness to Greenville – one of seven championship events the governing body withdrew from North Carolina last month – came “because of the cumulative actions taken by the state concerning civil rights protections” according to a statement issued in September.

By pulling all events, including the opening rounds of the men’s basketball tournament, out of North Carolina because of the passing of the controversial House Bill 2, the NCAA has finally gotten something right

This isn’t something that can be said very often, but the NCAA actually got something right for a change. On Monday, the oft-maligned governing body for college sports announced that it would be moving seven events, most notably the opening round of the men’s basketball tournament, out of North Carolina due to the passing of House Bill 2 earlier in the year. The NCAA’s decision comes several months after the NBA made the decision to move the all-star game from Charlotte to New Orleans.

The NCAA made it immediately clear that this was not a move they were making without putting much thought into it. In a detailed press release, the NCAA explained their decision to move all seven events scheduled to take place in North Carolina throughout the 2016-17 academic year. Most of their reasons detail the blatantly discriminatory nature of HB2, which makes it illegal for transgender individuals to use restrooms that differ from the sex on their birth certificate, invalidating local laws that would protect LGBT individuals while effectively legalizing governmental discrimination against them. All in all, it mostly reads as the NCAA taking a praiseworthy stance against LGBT discrimination.

A Qatari-based network known for bringing La Liga and MotoGP into American living rooms is gambling on college sports to expand its US footprint

In one corner, the House of Thani; in the other, Waffle House. As you might imagine, what rocks the socks off of Hattiesburg doesn’t necessarily translate in Doha. Or even London, much to John Duff’s chagrin.

“When I was selling it internationally and on the discussion (phase) of it, I had to first start at the beginning and explain what college sports was,” Duff, the director of business development and strategy for beIN Sports USA and Canada, recalls with a soft chuckle.

If the league raises its age limit the NCAA will gain even more control over young athletes

The NCAA never miss a chance to extoll the virtues of amateurism. Naturally, NCAA media coordinator David Worlock jumped on the results of the NBA MVP ballot, in which eight of the 10 players (including the winner Steph Curry) spent multiple years playing in college before departing for the pros.

Sporting News college basketball writer Mike DeCourcy seized on this point, claiming the statistic contains something compelling. “Perhaps it’s an indication that the race through the age-limit turnstile is not producing quite the level of NBA player many hope,” DeCourcy writes, suggesting the NBA need to raise the current age-limit of 19 to force elite young basketball players to ply their trade for NCAA masters for free rather than seek a wage in the NBA.

Hampton University’s men’s lacrosse team – the only program from a historically black college or university to play at the Division I level – is challenging perceptions in a sport predominately played by white people

Somewhere on I-64, leading away from Hampton University’s waterfront campus in southeast Virginia, sits a billboard. This icon, this display comprised of highly engineered vinyl and metal features the visage of five lacrosse players. As the Pirates’ season comes to a close, the sign is perhaps the last standing testament to the outside world of all that the team has accomplished this season. In the span of less than a year, Hampton’s men’s lacrosse program, under head coach Lloyd Carter, have gone from intramural club to the first team from a historically black college or university to play in the top flight of American collegiate sports.

On 13 February when the Hampton Pirates took on Roberts Wesleyan College, ESPN marked the historic occasion by airing its two-hour SportsCenter live from Hampton’s campus with features on the team peppered throughout the show. The coverage included features on Michael Crawford, the student who dreamed of bringing the sport to Hampton University before his untimely death. ESPN’s Chris Connelly interviewed Jim Brown, the NFL legend who remains the only athlete enshrined as a Hall of Famer for both pro football and lacrosse. Hampton coach Lloyd Carter was interviewed live on the field at Armstrong Stadium, the area behind him packed with the Hampton student body and community members from the surrounding area, who braved the frigid cold temperatures to be a part of history.

The NCAA is placing a moratorium on new bowl games, but depriving college football the chance to celebrate even more October futility hardly seems fair

It is with great sadness that the country mourns the loss of Myrtle Beach’s college football bowl game before it ever happened. Lost will be the Myrtle Beach bowl parade, the Myrtle Beach bowl reception at a two-star hotel and, of course, the actual Myrtle Beach bowl game, which would have undoubtedly rewarded two mediocre teams with undistinguished seasons battling for an oversized trophy before great swaths of empty seats.

The Myrtle Beach bowl held such promise, just like the Austin, Texas bowl and the Charleston bowl – which would have been played just 100 miles down the South Carolina coast. It would have delivered hope to two more teams that fell a few dozen touchdowns short of a winning season. It would have turned the disappointment of a 37-0 homecoming loss into the lifelong memories that can only come on the Myrtle Beach boardwalk in late December: the empty bandstands, that nor’easter whipping across the sand, the shuttered waterparks longing for springtime …

Villanova Wildcats’ Kris Jenkins praises teammate Ryan Arcidiacono for his ‘unselfish’ pass that set up his match winning shot in the NCAA championship game against University of North Carolina on Monday. Villanova head coach Jay Wright says he ‘doesn’t have the words’ to describe the victory

Following North Carolina’s decision to repeal local anti-discriminatory laws, the NBA has opened up the possibility of moving the 2017 all-star game. It should

On Wednesday, North Carolina’s state legislature introduced and promptly passed House Bill 2, an action that effectively ensured that LGBT individuals would not be protected by anti-discrimination laws. Among the many businesses that expressed disapproval of the bill, which Governor Pat McCrory has already signed into law, was the NBA, which may end up pulling the 2017 all-star game from Charlotte in response.

On Thursday, the NBA released the following statement: “The NBA is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all who attend our games and events. We are deeply concerned that this discriminatory law runs counter to our guiding principles of equality and mutual respect, and do not yet know what impact it will have on our ability to successfully host the 2017 all-star game in Charlotte.”